Glow Little Spark, Glow
It is far too easy to sit in your studio apartment, writing someone else’s wedding vows as your mind flickers to an ex getting married at the exact same moment, and start to worry that this right here might be your life. Pristine white blinds, walls, china cabinet, built-ins that mimic the blank taste in […]
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The Business of Breaking Up
Is the business of breaking up ever really finished? Perhaps it’s overly nostalgic of me, but I can’t help thinking that any time before the age of technology was the golden era of breakups. In my imagined golden age of breakups, you broke up and bam. That person was out of sight, out of mind, […]
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Adele and Datingverse Sociology
So, I’m at a house-warming party a month ago, kicking back with a glass of homemade lemonade to match my lemon-bar dessert, and a group of 30-somethings are gathered in backyard playing molkky and chewing* the breeze when the inevitable happens: we started talking about our professional lives and woo-eee, did this group of singles and […]
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The Dark Matter of Breakups
One of the downfalls of dating – and of being a human who goes outside (or even of the Boo Radley variety for that matter) – is the aftermath of breakups. Since the whole fifty dates project was inspired by a heartbreaking work of breakuppery, ghosts of relationships past have certainly wafted through my mind […]
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